Green facts uncovered on Earth Day Celebration at Lewis Morris Park

9:01 AM,
Apr. 29, 2012

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Six-year-old Matthew Kellish of Hopatcong studiously poked around shallow tubs of swamp water Saturday to find bugs under the leaves. It was his first lesson about the macroinvertebrates that live in the water.

"They hide from you," he said, "so you have to really look for them."

He and his mother, Teresa, were in a demonstration tent at the Morris County Park Commission's Earth Day Celebration under the watchful eye of Stephanie Queirolo of the AmeriCorps New Jersey Watershed Ambassadors Program. ...